Il Capitale Umano
From time to time we skip the big cinema and visit a small local movie theater instead: Lumieré - a Göttinger specialty with a bit of hipster flavor to it :3 This year they’ve aired several good movies, such as: the gorgeous, grunting “Mr. Turner” (so far my favourite from the 'smaller movies'), “How the wind changes” and now “Il Capitale Umano” ( ( Read more... )
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(I liked Mr Turner--I watched it via DVD rental--but I couldn't finish it. It was so beautiful, but everyone was so unlikable, esp Turner. XD And their lives seemed so brutal. I may have just been in a downer mood. But it was aesthetically gorgeous.)
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Agree! It was even better on a big screen (also, it's harder to run from the film when you have already paid for the tickets).
I also kind of hated Mr. Turner at first, but he does get more likable through the story! And the end is so bittersweet. Melancholic, but in the good, up-lifting way. Have you watched it trough to his second marriage?
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Hmmm, I can't remember... I don't think so? (It's been a bit, can't remember.) I got as far as the affair he was having with the woman who ran the inn; I can't remember how far their relationship got, but it was sad he didn't tell her his real identity.
Heh, I had the opposite reaction--I liked him at first *because* he was such a grump. But it was just so unrelenting. (And it was a bit depressing seeing how much autonomy he had to go around sleeping around, but the women at that time had so very little power of their own.) Though I did love the bitchery and politics at the Royal Academy of Arts (and Turner making Constable have a meltdown LOL).
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Yes, that's the one I mean! He had married the landlady at the end; there were several rather nice moments they shared. She mixed his paint and he took her to a photographer's shop to remember her forever. (He grunted at the American photographer at first, of cause. Jealous that photography will make him - or any painter - redundant and asking way too many questions about what this new technique can and can not achieve.)
I agree on the grim fate of women in that age though :/ I surely wouldn't want to life then, despite all the poetic landscapes. But there was one positive sign: the appearance of his female scientist friend! She showed him how to make a rainbow out of sun light with the help of magnets. It was quite touching. (Also, there was nothing sexual in their relationship - which was very refreshing.)
The politics at the Royal Academy of Arts was by far the most amusing thing :D (and the young Queen Victoria making fun of his newest paintings ._.)
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